Eitem CR9/16/30 - Letter from Rajah Shitab Rae to Clive.

Thank you for your letter of the 1st of Rabi al-Avval, San 7, replying to my letter in which I had enquired about the payment of fifty thousand rupees by Navab Mubariz al-Mulk, Muin al-Daulah Sayyid Muhammad Riza Khan Bahadur Muzaffar Jang for obtaining firamin and other official documents relating to the administration of the three provinces. You have asked me to put the above amount in the expenses of Navab Saif al-Mulk, Saif al-Daulah Mir Nijabat Ali Khan Bahadur Shamatjang. The Navab [Mubariz al-Daulah] is at present busy in the administrative affairs of the province and I will present this letter to him when he returns to his post. He has so far been able to collect the overdue revenue for the year 1173 Fasli and is working hard day and night to collect the remaining overdue amounts. -- Enclosure 1: [Gold-cubes]. -- A large number of princes of the Timurid family are imprisoned in the palace at Delhi. One of these princes managed to escape from there on the 20th of Safar and reached Farrukhabad. Navab Ahmad Khan Bahadur Ghalib Jang has taken this prince under his protection. Hearing this, the King has written to the Navab. This news is being sent to you for information. -- Enclosure 2 : [Gold-cubes]. -- Just after you left Bihar a representative of Maharajah Januji named Sukha Ram Pandit arrived here to discuss some issues raised by the aforesaid Maharajah. Now he wants to go to Calcutta but I have asked him to seek the advice of Navab Muin al-Daulah before he undertakes his jouney. He was been pursuaded to hand over the envelope containing a letter addressed to you; this is enclosed. Please let us know what course of action you would like us to take. I have been able to convince him that he should go back to Maharajah Januji with Mir Zain al-Abidin Khan who would be able to explain to the Maharajah our side of the arguments. -- Enclosure: 3. Copy of a news-letter from the Delhi army. -- A petition from Badr al-Daulah has arrived here from Farrukhabad in which it is written that a son of Rafi al-Darajat, a grandson of Bahadur Shah, has arrived here in Farrukhabad with some other people and that Navab Umdat al-Mulk Ahmad Khan Bahadur has taken him under his protection and appointed his army to protect him. Perhaps the Marathas are also involved in this. On hearing this news the King got worried and has sent shuqqahs to Navab Ahmad Khan Bahadur, Badr al-Daulah and to Navab Shuja al-Daulah Bahadur.